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BC Gender Equality Report Card 2021/2022 - JANUARY 2023

20 Jan 2023

The grades we ultimately assigned in each area of this Report Card reflect our best To produce this Report Card, we worked with a efforts to compile the many diverse and nuanced range of communities and advocates to identify perspectives contributed by dialogue participants key issues and to assign the BC government and community reviewers. [...] Women, and especially racialized women, risk greater exposure (c) The right to free choice of profession to illness because they work on the frontlines in and employment, the right to promotion, careers such as nursing, long-term care, support job security and all benefits and conditions of service and the right to receive work, education, cleaning, and food and beverage vocational training and re. [...] 47 Without access to convenient transit, the time transportation is also connected to the deaths required to travel to work reduces the earning and disappearances of Indigenous women and potential of women and people who are people who are marginalized based on gender.252 marginalized based on gender and limits the When the transportation system is inaccessible, reach of employment opportunities.2. [...] This prevents assessment of the system’s capacity to meet people’s needs and is a barrier to accountability.363 Predominant approaches to mental health fail to recognize the structural and social determinants of health, which include colonialism, poverty and unemployment, stress and trauma, discrimination, and other forms of systemic marginalization based on race, gender, and disability.364 67 des. [...] The States Parties to the present In 2021–2022, the pandemic has also Covenant recognize the right of corresponded to a rise in discrimination and everyone to the enjoyment of the hate directed towards people experiencing highest attainable standard of physical mental health issues, often in combination with and mental health.
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